{"id":636,"date":"2008-04-07T14:55:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T18:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2008-04-08T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T14:31:06","slug":"majoring-in-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Majoring in Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/06\/education\/06philosophy.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">This <\/a>justification for majoring in Philosophy is ironically circular:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When a fellow student at <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/r\/rutgers_the_state_university\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about Rutgers\">Rutgers University<\/a> urged Didi Onejeme to try Philosophy 101 two years ago, Ms. Onejeme, who was a pre-med sophomore, dismissed it as \u201cfrou-frou.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"secondParagraph\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u201cPeople sitting under trees and talking about stupid stuff \u2014 I mean, who cares?\u201d Ms. Onejeme recalled thinking at the time. <\/p>\n<p>But<br \/>\nMs. Onejeme, now a senior applying to law school, ended up changing her<br \/>\nmajor to philosophy, which she thinks has armed her with the skills to<br \/>\nbe successful. <strong>\u201cMy mother was like, what are you going to do with<br \/>\nthat?\u201d said Ms. Onejeme, 22. \u201cShe wanted me to be a pharmacy major, but<br \/>\nI persuaded her with my argumentative skills.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If anything, a philosophy major will help you find an argument to justify your being a philosophy major. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This justification for majoring in Philosophy is ironically circular: When a fellow student at Rutgers University urged Didi Onejeme to try Philosophy 101 two years ago, Ms. Onejeme, who was a pre-med sophomore, dismissed it as \u201cfrou-frou.\u201d \u201cPeople sitting under trees and talking about stupid stuff \u2014 I mean, who cares?\u201d Ms. Onejeme recalled thinking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=636\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Majoring in Philosophy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,2003],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-academia","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}